Implementation of emergency general practitioner management of patients during the complete lockdown consequent to the COVID-19 Omicron outbreak in Shanghai

Aust J Gen Pract. 2022 Jul 4:51. doi: 10.31128/AJGP-COVID-51-5.

¹ MD, PhD, Director, Department of General Practice, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai, China; Deputy Director, Discipline of General Practice, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; Deputy Director, Center for Community Health Care, China Hospital Development Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
² MD, General practitioner, Department of General Practice, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai, China.
³ MBBS, PhD, Academic adviser, Department of General Practice, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai, China.
⁴ PhD, Associate professor, School of Public Health, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China; Director, Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou, China.
⁵ MD, PhD, Academic adviser, Department of General Practice, Tongren Hospital, Shanghai, China.

Abstract

The outbreak of the Omicron strain of COVID-19 led to the most restrictive lockdowns ever implemented in Shanghai.